Cheryl H. Arrowsmith

Cheryl H. Arrowsmith

SGC Toronto

Arrowsmith

Biography

Cheryl Arrowsmith is a Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, and the Chief Scientist of the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) at the University of Toronto.  Her research focuses on the structural and chemical biology of chromatin and epigenetic regulatory factors especially as relates to cancer and drug discovery. In partnership with major pharmaceutical companies, she leads the SGC’s international open science program that is developing and distributing unencumbered Chemical Probes that support the discovery of new medicines. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and carried out postdoctoral research at Stanford University, and was co-founder of Affinium Pharmaceuticals, which developed a new medicine for multidrug resistant bacteria. She has published over 300 research articles and was recognized by Clarivate Analytics as being among the worlds top 1% of highly cited scientists in 2018, 2019 and 2022. She was elected an AAAS Fellow (2015), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2020).

2019

Fragment-based discovery of a chemical probe for the PWWP1 domain of NSD3.

Böttcher J, Dilworth D, Reiser U, Neumüller RA, Schleicher M, Petronczki M, Zeeb M, Mischerikow N, Allali-Hassani A, Szewczyk MM, Li F, Kennedy S, Vedadi M, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Brown PJ, Huber KVM, Rogers CM, Wells CI, Fedorov O, Rumpel K, Zoephel A, Mayer M, Wunberg T, Böse D, Zahn S, Arnhof H, Berger H, Reiser C, Hörmann A, Krammer T, Corcokovic M, Sharps B, Winkler S, Häring D, Cockcroft XL, Fuchs JE, Müllauer B, Weiss-Puxbaum A, Gerstberger T, Boehmelt G, Vakoc CR, Arrowsmith CH, Pearson M, McConnell DB

Nat. Chem. Biol.. 2019-7-8 . .doi: 10.1038/s41589-019-0310-x

PMID: 31285596

Target 2035: probing the human proteome.

Carter AJ, Kraemer O, Zwick M, Mueller-Fahrnow A, Arrowsmith CH, Edwards AM

Drug Discov. Today. 2019-7-3 . .doi: 10.1016/j.drudis.2019.06.020

PMID: 31278990

Discovery of a Potent and Selective Fragment-like Inhibitor of Methyllysine Reader Protein Spindlin 1 (SPIN1).

Xiong Y, Greschik H, Johansson C, Seifert L, Bacher J, Park KS, Babault N, Martini ML, Fagan V, Li F, Chau I, Christott T, Dilworth D, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Vedadi M, Arrowsmith CH, Brennan PE, Fedorov O, Jung M, Farnie G, Liu J, Oppermann UCT, Schüle R, Jin J

J. Med. Chem.. 2019-7-1 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00522

PMID: 31260300

Structural basis of HMCES interactions with abasic DNA and multivalent substrate recognition.

Halabelian L, Ravichandran M, Li Y, Zeng H, Rao A, Aravind L, Arrowsmith CH

Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol.. 2019-6-24 . .doi: 10.1038/s41594-019-0246-6

PMID: 31235913

Discovery of selective activators of PRC2 mutant EED-I363M.

Suh JL, Barnash KD, Abramyan TM, Li F, The J, Engelberg IA, Vedadi M, Brown PJ, Kireev DB, Arrowsmith CH, James LI, Frye SV

Sci Rep. 2019-4-25 . 9(1):6524 .doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-43005-z

PMID: 31024026

A chemical toolbox for the study of bromodomains and epigenetic signaling.

Wu Q, Heidenreich D, Zhou S, Ackloo S, Krämer A, Nakka K, Lima-Fernandes E, Deblois G, Duan S, Vellanki RN, Li F, Vedadi M, Dilworth J, Lupien M, Brennan PE, Arrowsmith CH, Müller S, Fedorov O, Filippakopoulos P, Knapp S

Nat Commun. 2019-4-23 . 10(1):1915 .doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09672-2

PMID: 31015424

Targeting bivalency de-represses Indian Hedgehog and inhibits self-renewal of colorectal cancer-initiating cells.

Lima-Fernandes E, Murison A, da Silva Medina T, Wang Y, Ma A, Leung C, Luciani GM, Haynes J, Pollett A, Zeller C, Duan S, Kreso A, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Wouters BG, Jin J, Carvalho DD, Lupien M, Arrowsmith CH, O'Brien CA

Nat Commun. 2019-3-29 . 10(1):1436 .doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09309-4

PMID: 30926792

AKT drives SOX2 overexpression and cancer cell stemness in esophageal cancer by protecting SOX2 from UBR5-mediated degradation.

Wang Z, Kang L, Zhang H, Huang Y, Fang L, Li M, Brown PJ, Arrowsmith CH, Li J, Wong J

Oncogene. 2019-3-20 . .doi: 10.1038/s41388-019-0790-x

PMID: 30894683

Design and characterization of mutant and wild-type huntingtin proteins produced from a toolkit of scalable eukaryotic expression systems.

Harding RJ, Loppnau P, Ackloo S, Lemak A, Hutchinson A, Hunt B, Holehouse AS, Ho JC, Fan L, Toledo-Sherman L, Seitova A, Arrowsmith CH

J. Biol. Chem.. 2019-3-6 . .doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.007204

PMID: 30842263

A chemical biology toolbox to study protein methyltransferases and epigenetic signaling.

Scheer S, Ackloo S, Medina TS, Schapira M, Li F, Ward JA, Lewis AM, Northrop JP, Richardson PL, Kaniskan HÜ, Shen Y, Liu J, Smil D, McLeod D, Zepeda-Velazquez CA, Luo M, Jin J, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Huber KVM, De Carvalho DD, Vedadi M, Zaph C, Brown PJ, Arrowsmith CH

Nat Commun. 2019-1-3 . 10(1):19 .doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07905-4

PMID: 30604761